The Truth Will Out. (Corrigendum)

Just an update on this fascinating tale of sceintific success and massive, embarrasing, old media fail.Last year a report came out of Trondheim University in Norway giving a very negative take on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of electric cars in comparison to diesel. I read it, got depressed, heard about it on Fox news, got more depressed, heard more about it endlessly on the BBC, got even more depressed. 'Electric Cars Pose Environmental Risk' is the BBC headline if you want to google it.Then I found a very well researched and damning rebuttal from a scientist in America who suggested the report suddenly may be less than watertight. In fact it was leaking like a rusting hulk. Leaving all that in the past, I assumed that would be an end to it. An oil company funded University in Norway publishes a damning report about electric cars, old media has a mass love fest about it, asks no questions about the research, job done.But enough numpties like me and some actual proper scientists started asking a few awkward questions, the scientists who published the report got a bit defensive as well they might, got more air time, did more interviews on the BBC and now, hey ho, they've done a Corrigendum.A what? Um, they've made a few 'corrections' to their paper, they've slightly altered their original figures which makes the vast over pumped claims they originally spouted seem just slightly less dramatic.In fact, the difference, even with their twisted determination to 'prove' electric cars are as dirty as diesel if they are charged by coal burning power alone is yawn inducing in it's bleeding obviousness. Interestingly in the same month this much touted report was published, the Union of Concerned Scientists in America also published a report about the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of electric vehicles only it came out with results so startlingly opposite to the Trondheim report , the truth probably lies somewhere between the two. Did Fox news or the BBC ever mention the Union of Concerned Scientists report, did they ever hint at it?Don't be silly, of course not.